Logging Off launch with Adele Zeynep Walton at Bookhaus
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A event held at Bookhaus on Wednesday 9th July. The event starts at 18:00.


We live in a digital world. In the 30 years since we've been online, we've created connections, crossed boundaries and discovered new worlds. We have done things generations before us could never have imagined.

But at what cost?

Growing up as a Gen Z, Adele spent endless hours as a teenager on social media, shaping her view of herself and the world. As a freelance journalist, she has used her social media platforms and digital technology to develop a career in an unfamiliar and competitive industry, benefitting from the opportunities that these spaces can offer. But after losing her sister to online harms, she realised that our current digital world is failing us.

We are an anxious and discontent generation. Our lived realities and our online vulnerabilities are inextricably linked, and this means big business for social media tycoons who want us to stay scrolling at any cost. As Big Tech barons make their billions, capitalising on our emotions, instincts, insecurities and desires, everyday people are losing out.

From workers being fired by algorithms, to online forums dedicated to revenge porn and encouraging suicide, to censorship of marginalised voices and the turbulent impacts of AI, Logging Off reveals that our digital world is currently fuelling crises that only empathy, agency and humanity can resolve. This book is a call for a radical reclamation of our digital world, for a more humane future that empowers us all.

Adele will be here at bookhaus to discuss this, in conversation with Grace Blakeley (Vulture Capitalism). Tickets cost £6 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book. Presented by bookhaus.

Poignant, timely and astute, Logging Off is a compelling examination of how our lives have been shaped - and irrevocably changed - by the rise of digital technologies. - Yomi Adegoke, author of THE LIST

You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book - Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM

Logging Off is a life-saving book - Mikaela Loach, author of IT'S NOT THAT RADICAL

Entry requirements: no age restrictions

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